FOODIA-NET. A TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION AND ACTIVE PEOPLE INVOLVEMENT IN THE PREVENTION OF DIABETES MELLITUS: RESULTS FROM THE FIRST FIELD TRIAL

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most widespread chronic diseases in the world and, by its nature, it affects several disciplines.Patients often appear unaware and lacking an adequate lifestyle and appropriate nutritional education to prevent its aggravation.Consequently, it appears essential to promote educational initiati

Recent studies have raised the question of whether dogs, like human infants, comprehend an established Lunch Boxes rule as generalizable, normative knowledge or rather as episodic information, existing only in the immediate situation.In the current study we tested whether dogs disobeyed a prohibition to take a treat (i) in the presence of the commu

Scrap tyres are a problematic waste material.As a method for recycling large quantities of rubber from scrap tyres, this paper analyses the use of unbound granular Body Wash mixtures with varying percentages of rubber particles as sub-ballast in railway lines.Bearing capacity for such mixtures is studied in laboratory and field tests using static a